A few things I learned that I figure I would put out there.

Vacuum the carpet first. I figured I'd just hose it out to get the various bits of fuzz, grass and what not but that stuff didn't come out with the spray down as well as I thought it would. Wish I had vacuumed it first but as it was soaking wet it was too late.

Get a good tub. I had read of someone with a tub cracking and breaking open while soaking. I figured it was a cheap tub but it could have just been old. The tub I used was a brand new rubbermaid tub bought just for this and it still made me a tad nervous. Two things I didn't think of when it came time to do the work. The weight and heat from the boiling water did a number on the tub. I can now understand how a quality but old tub would fail. I also pulled the rubber plug out of the lid so it could vent the hot air out the top and not add pressure to the tub.

It was not wider at the bottom when I bought it.

Tub size. Didn't need as big as I thought I would. Fresh out of the car I couldn't understand how the carpet would fit in a 40gal tub. Others told me it'd fit but I already had the 50g. It fit in the bottom half. It fits better when wet and once the boiling water hits it crumples right down. 40g would've worked.

This is shoved in before rinsing.

This is crammed in the bottom half after rinsing and adding boiling water. With a sidewalk tile to keep it down.

Buy the dye ahead of time. I figured I could just run to the store and grab some. Not so. The walmart by me only had the powder and I checked the 4 craft/fabric stores in the area and only got two bottles. I ended up having my wife check the stores in the next town over where she works. They had 7 bottles, I had her grab them all. Also they no longer make the large tubs shown in other threads. I used 7 bottles. I'm told someone else did it with 6 but I went with 7.

An extra set of hands was handy. The wife helped with the door and the tub lid each time. Although that I could've worked around what really helped was the last two water dumps. I had seen other threads where people pulled the carpet out with tan spots still. So the last two pots I pulled the carpet back out and looked for missed spots. Found two so while I pulled out and held the carpet she dumped the dye directly onto the missed spots.

Last thing was rinse off time. I was too busy watching the carpet and not what was washing away. when I did look I saw fabric washing away. Turns out the hard jet of water was ripping off the underside insulation on the carpet. Not a big deal but still not preferred. So when it's time to rinse the insulation use a soft stream of water.

 

Looks nice, miles better than when I did mine. Im really interested to see how the floor mats turn out. I'd like to do my mats too. I'm looking forward to more pics.

side note to everyone thinking of doing this, DO NOT DO THIS INDOORS!

 

Yeah I think the split tub I heard about was inside.

 

Looks awesome! Probably the best carpet dying job ive seen so far. Usually theres some light spots but it looks pretty dang even.

Just need to replace the rest of the tan with black :wink:

 

I've got door panels mostly ready to go but they need a couple of things. Then it's the back interior pieces and the dash plus a few little things I'm sure. I'm also thinking of having the armrest done up like the R armrest to match the rear seats and shift boot. Maybe get some actual padding added to the armrest as well since that just sucks in that department.

 

I got a black steering wheel/airbag you can have if your going to the dragon. Might have a couple other small parts too.

That can filled with dye looks dangerous lol

 

I died my carpet awhile back and ended up just buying new. Seems like every time I vacuum it, I would get streaks where you could kind of tell it used to be tan. You'll have to post on how this holds up in the long run.

 

Now the mats and hatch carpet are done. Same procedure as before, I used 4 bottles this time. One more bottle was needed later which is posted below.

A few wrinkles to flatten out but looks good. A note for those this may apply to. If you've got a sub box you need to take out don't just lay it in the garage on the floor. It'll bring annoying dirt and grass back with it when you put it back in the hatch.

First the annoyance. There was a missed spot somehow on the front passenger side mat. Everything was held under by walkway tiles again but somehow this got missed. At first I was going to leave it since it was the passenger side but the wife convinced me it would annoy me in the future. She was probably right. That's what the one last bottle was for, had to redo it.

Also it turns out the mats take A LOT more rinsing than the rest. The hatch mat took extra with the large insulation but I ended up rinsing the mats three times each. I'm guessing it has something to do with the rubber backing. Hanging them on something to rinse seemed to help.

and the other results

The light spots on the driver side are actually just worn mat from years of feet resting in the same spots. They're just as black as the rest.

A close up of the formerly white spots. The pictures really annoy me. They make them look purple but they're not. They're a lighter black.

 

Yeah I had a missed spot on the mats as well.

I mean honestly - you could buy different mats if you wanted to. They look really good still.

You could also dye them again.

If you want to black out the acura logos you could always go at them with a black sharpie. The thread doesn't want to hold the dye like the rest of the mat.

 

Oh, forgot to say - nice work man! bringing back memories from when I did this same thing.

 

Was talking about this today, just shy of 5 years later and it still looks good. No streaking or dye lost so it's holding nicely.

 

Glad it’s holding up so well. I was always skeptical about buying a teg with carpet that wasn’t already a dark color, I’ll have to keep this in mind the next time I’m Integra shopping. Haven’t had one in years, but it’s the only car I’ve owned that I loved driving. I almost can’t wait for my Cruze to die, but it’s at 90k miles and driving as smoothly as ever. Glad but frustrated. Lol it’s also nice to see familiar names on here still.

 

I still am here although 2 kids really slows that down. Hard to believe it's been 5 years since I dyed the carpet.